Kenai LNG gets FERC import terminal approval

[thackney]

Kenai LNG gets FERC import terminal approval
https://www.ogj.com/pipelines-transportation/lng/article/14189539/kenai-lng-gets-ferc-import-terminal-approval
Dec 23rd, 2020

Marathon Petroleum Corp. subsidiary Trans-Foreland Pipeline Co. LLC has received US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval to convert its Kenai LNG liquefaction plant in Alaska into an import terminal. FERC gave Trans-Foreland 2 years to complete the conversion.

Trans-Foreland would import up to four cargoes of LNG per year and use its boil-off gas management system to deliver imported gas to the 68,000-b/d Kenai refinery. LNG has not been exported from Kenai since 2015. The plant has been maintained in a warm idle state since 2018.

To convert the Kenai LNG plant to an import terminal, ...

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Sad to see Alaska becoming a Nat Gas Importing State instead of developing more of what they have.

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Kenai first began operations in 1969 as the US's first LNG terminal.

[thackney]

Kenai first began operations in 1969 as the US's first LNG terminal.

Yes.  It is a rather little one.  For a long time it supplied LNG to Japan for electrical generation and other uses.

http://static.conocophillips.com/files/resources/fact-sheet_kenai-lng_current.pdf

In 1967, an LNG sales agreement was signed by Phillips and Marathon as sellers and Tokyo Gas Company Ltd. and the Tokyo Electric Power Company Inc. as buyers. The original 15 year contract provisioned a 5 year extension period.

https://www.conocophillips.com/spiritnow/story/conocophillips-and-japan-mark-50-years-of-lng/